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generators/fortune: Add quotes seen last week
Minor formatting and corrections to some quotes.
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@@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ Every so often the stars align.
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Nobody wants a backup, everybody wants a restore.
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-Kingmaker Scenario: A player who is unable to win has the ability
+Kingmaker Scenario: A player who is unable to win with the ability
to influence who will win.
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Programmers do it bit by bit.
@@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born
to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz, “Social
Studies”
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-In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don’t need it. Wait, isn't it
+In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don’t need it. Wait, isn’t it
the other way around?
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“Alas Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men
@@ -2824,7 +2824,7 @@ Argument from Fallacy: The formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and
inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
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“What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but
-only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”
+only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably a part.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support
@@ -2960,7 +2960,7 @@ Boy: “Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.”
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The bait and switch is the oldest trick in the book.
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-If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
+If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, it abruptly ends.
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@@ -2969,3 +2969,20 @@ Do the old eat the young?
No, we want a king to rule over us.
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Please confirm my bias.
+%
+What if the universe is not immortal?
+%
+Consensus is the only thing that matters.
+%
+Wikipedia is not a reliable source, because it can be edited by anyone at
+any time.
+%
+Feudalism is alive and well.
+%
+Eristic Dialectics: The Logic of Appearance.
+%
+Turning and turning in the widening gyre
+The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
+Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
+Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
+― William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming